Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Snakecharmer, "Snakecharmer"

February 23, 2013 2 Comments

Snakecharmer's debut is one of those rare releases that will have classic rock fans firmly believing they have died and gone to heav...

Video Review: Yes, "Greatest Video Hits"

February 17, 2013 Add Comment

YES may be considered by some to be leftovers from a bygone age when indulgence and the art of making good, intelligent music was the no...

Album Review: Monster Magnet "Superjudge"

February 13, 2013 Add Comment

Dirty, black savage riffs come roaring out of the speaker. At times it seems as if Monster Magnet are trying to summon up El Diablo hims...

Poster: Iron Maiden Poster, Japan 2011

February 11, 2013 Add Comment

Album Review: Motörhead, "The Wörld Is Yours"

February 11, 2013 Add Comment

The hard rock/heavy metal camp has had a few big fatalities recently – not least Ronnie James Dio and Gary Moore. It gets you thinking, ...

Interview: Phil Lewis, LA Guns

February 06, 2013 Add Comment

Phil Lewis n' Tracii Guns All Fired Up Think of Hollywood Vampires LA Guns and one automatically remembers great rock 'n...

INTERVIEW: ROB HALFORD

February 04, 2013 Add Comment

At a time when the driving forces in music seem to be club culture and computers, heavy metal can look quite unfashionable. But, in i...

Interview: K.K. Downing & Ian Hill, Judas Priest

February 01, 2013 Add Comment

"Fall to your knees and repent if you please." Having been 'hell bent for leather' for 20 years, 'gentleman of the...

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!